“No more massacres, police in the favelas, Israel in Palestine!”
This was the chant at the protest in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday, on the 31st of October.
Re-Storying the Land
The intention behind such work is to breathe life back into the geography of the land. A land which is reduced by capitalism and monotheism into nothing more than a resource to be exploited, an assembly of lifeless objects and landscapes without spirit and meaning in and of themselves.
Publication Day for To Keep Silent by Thomas Sachs
An excerpt from the debut occult horror novel from Thomas Sachs
Art or Algorithm? NVIDIA and the Narrative of Artificial Intelligence
The debate around ABBA Voyage is less about whether artificial intelligence was technically used, and more about who gets to define the cultural meaning of these tools—the artists on stage, or the companies designing the chips that process their digital likeness.
New course: The Witch’s Kin, instructed by Asa West
Information about our latest course and our other course offerings.
The Rise and Fall of U.S. Economic Influence over Brazil
With limited control over technological development or industrial policy, Brazil sees itself in a paradigm of neocolonialism through economics rather than armies.
Announcing: The Elucidations of Drake
The first book in an occult-noir detective series by Bill Koch (Kadmus)
The magic surrealism of Ithell Colquhoun
Academic art historians have a way of "discovering" artists who they have, themselves, neglected or even casually obscured for decades.
Finding Solace in the Whispering of the Soul
The act of feeling and quietly noticing and acknowledging is something of an act of resistance, of saying yes to living and life.
The Sanctuary of Distinguished Guests
From Rhyd Wildermuth: The world is a mess and will only get worse. But that world? It isn't our world.
Lessons From The Beautiful Pilgrim
What are we actually for? What is the goal that we are working towards? Is mere survival, or even acceptance within the status quo, enough?
Popes and Palaces: Lifting the Veil from Sacred to Sovereign Power
Mapping power as a continuum of symbolic authority, tracing the evolution and performance of legitimacy — from altar to throne, from sanctity to sovereignty —, is a cultural and political critique exposing how public reverence for religious and royal figures acts as a symbolic veil concealing the violent continuities of colonialism, neocoloniality, and capitalism.
An Inventory of Dead and Living Language
Words like “health,” “liberation,” and “manifestation,” once felt so vibrant.
The Silent Determination of Turtles
“By protecting turtles, we are, in fact, defending the possibility of a healthy future for all, where nature can exist in balance.”
Running toward and away from connection
Connection comes from the heart. The most perfect guidelines and group agreements fail when the heart is not engaged.
In Search Of The Psammead
What influenced us to become involved with neo-paganism and the magical arts?
Publication Day for A Demonology of Desires!
"A wonderfully inventive, compulsively readable and brilliantly controlled feat of gothic imagination." - Carl Neville
Folk As Living Traditions: Morris Dancing
As May Day and Beltane fast approach, now is the perfect time to talk about morris dancing.